Facebook Tips: Managing Friends With Lists

Friends lists can be used to filter your new s feed, choose who you want to chat with, make event invitations easier and filter your updates and personal information from certain people. They're extremely useful and best set up as soon as possible , so that you can add friends to the...
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Facebook Tips: Changing privacy settings for certain friend lists

Almost ev ery privacy setting and update on Facebook can be fine-tuned to be controlled by friends list. I t's a very powerful privacy tool.For example: whenever you update your status, add photos or add a link you should see a little padlock. Click this to set the security level for just...
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Facebook Tips: Viewing filtered news feed & editing lists,Using friends lists to manage chat privacy

Go to the Friends application from your home page, then click on the list you need to edit. Note that this is also how you v iew filtered news feeds. Click "edit list" in the top right and click on whoever you need to add to or remove from the list. Using friends lists to...
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Facebook Tips: Fundamental Privacy Controls

Setting up Facebook can be confusing, especially if you don’t know what’s going on. For example, you’ll be asked if you w ant to search your IM and email contacts:  Before you enter anything, be aw are: Facebook will remember all your contacts and use that information to suggest...
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Facebook Tips: Privacy of basic updates

When a Facebook user posts and updates, it show s up in the new s feeds of friends. It also goes on the user’s w all, meaning visitors to their profile can see recent activity. Depending on the privacy levels chosen, an update can also be show n to friends of friends or beyond (ie,on...
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Facebook Tips: Posting other people's walls and Photo Albums & Tagging

Consider w all posts to be the equiv alent of sharing an anecdote in the middle of a cocktail party. All their friends and family are there and yours are too. Don't say anything you wouldn't say in this crowded room. Photo Albums & Tagging Not sure about...
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Facebook Tips: Events Privacy

You really w ant to set how publican event is BEFORE you start adding addresses or inviting your friends.If you create your event through the publisher (home page or profile), it will be a public even by default. This means anyone can see it, search for it, see   the...
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Facebook Tips: Facebook Message Privacy

As w ith email, beaw are when messages sent to a lot of people come in. The default reply option  is to "reply to all". Don't click this unless you w ant ev eryone to read your reply! You can respond to just one person by clicking the word "reply" next to their...
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Facebook Tips: Controlling who can write on your wall Control who can comment on posts

Not much control here: it’s either "Your Friends" or no one.  Go to Account > Privacy Settings  and choose "Customise Settings". Then look for "things others share" and make adjustments as you see fit. Control who can comment on posts You...
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Facebook tips: Managing Applications & Websites

Applications come w ith a risk 'not all application dev elopers have your best interests at heart. Dev elopers have access to a lot of your Facebook information and that of your friends. They may use this information for marketing, or they could use it for something...
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Facebook tips: Understanding Facebook Application Privacy Issues

The section called "What you're using" gives you a quick over view of all of your applications, allowing you to delete them quickly.  The 'game and application activ ity' section allows you to control which of your Facebook contacts can see your applications. It also...
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Facebook tips: Managing Application Permissions

There are all sorts of apps: quizzes, games, apps for login and w all 'posting apps. The login serv ice is known as Facebook Connect and these apps w ill show up in your applications looking just like any other. Head to the 'Account' menu and choose 'Application Settings'.  This...
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Facebook tips: Blocking and reporting applications

There are sev eral things you can do to report an application. When reading your new s feed, you can choose to 'Mark as spam'. Facebook w ill add it to other reports to decide w hether the user or the application is spam. Just like profile reporting and blocking,...
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Windows 8 Tips-- 12 Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 8

I’m been using Windows 8 for a few months and I’m only now starting to get used to it. The whole Metro UI is taking some time to get acclimated with. Now that I’ve gotten past that stage, I’m looking into making myself more productive on Windows 8 by learning some useful keyboard shortcuts. In...
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